diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 53af69d9a20096387ee1e9302b0feb88fc56e067..9d84144b3673fa3d81032c90174e6aeccb34f0de 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ build/
 **/build
 **__pycache__
 .vscode/
+**.pickle
diff --git a/python/examples/compare_logs.py b/python/examples/compare_logs.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000